[PRCo] Re: Vic Cianca Directing Traffic - Grant Street, 1975

[Herb Brannon]

I need to go back through the archives and index what stories I have related
here. I don't want to do repeats if I can help it.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 08:40, Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Mr.Brannon,
> I enjoy your personal experiences operating trolleys like this and
> your work on COT cars.  Please share more as you remember.
>
> Phil
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> >________________________________
> >From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:19 PM
> >Subject: [PRCo] Re: Vic Cianca Directing Traffic - Grant Street, 1975
> >
> >An excellent video. I remember Vic Cianca throughout the years I ran
> >trolleys. He spent many years at Ft Pitt Blvd and Smithfield Street. He
> >always seemed to slightly favor the trolleys on the Shannon routes coming
> >east on Ft Pitt. If traffic at Ft Pitt & Smithfield didn't move fast
> enough
> >then the backup would extend west on Ft Pitt with autos blocking the
> trolley
> >tracks for streetcars coming off Wood St. Vic always kept the traffic
> moving
> >so trolleys could make that left turn and he would move the Ft Pitt
> traffic
> >so trolleys coming from both Wood and Grant could make it onto the
> >Smithfield Street Bridge with not too much of a delay.
> >He was certainly a bit of Pittsburgh history.
> >
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park